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So, I was watching one of my favorite TV programs tonight. The story line had a significant resemblance to the "Pizza Gate" story. Here are the narratives that I found particularly interesting. 1.) The accused politician was completely innocent, he had been framed by an unidentified political enemy. 2.) The hacker that got into his computer was hired to frame him by said enemy. 3.) The investigator who revealed the story was a con artist interested only in generating "Click bait" to bring traffic to his ads. 4.) The first gunman who showed up to rescue the girls was stopped by the police. 5.) The second gunman killed the innocent politician in front of his daughter. 6.) The real child sex ring was discovered by the hacker who found them to frame the politician. 7.) The police not only cracked the ring but rescued the girls. 8.) The investigator created muck to throw at the police investigators that put them and their children at risk. So Politician (good guy) Hacker (greedy guy) Online investigator (very bad guy) Gunmen ( dupes) Police (heroes) Thoughts?

With a hard data point confirming we are seeing reality, we are now in a position to reach out to our friends who never saw what was coming and show them the truth in unprecedented ways. That in mind, I was struggling with the question of what parents should say to children about Trump. I have no kids, but I've seen the question popping up among my muggle FB friends. All the attention is heading to the HuffPo article on how to talk to children. The article contains some truth, but is covered with virtue signaling and no understanding of what actually happened yesterday. Clearly the lies told by the media and a focus on Trump's past by the Clinton campaign are driving this narrative. Any honest message has to mention that, but the genius of the FDR boards might have some great insight to strengthen our message, especially for those just waking up.

I keep one foot in the Marxist-orientated (London) Guardian website, as in between all the non-arguments, there are some things worth knowing that I otherwise wouldn't see. And it is reassuring to know, from weighing opinion in the comments sections, that things such as white privilege, 3rd wave feminism, Islamophobia and other grievance culture spurs are widely rejected. Since Brexit, the appearance of Trump and other similar themes in Europe, there has been a further move away from coherent philosophy, arguments - rational or irrational and decorum; and towards violently melting down, running around spitting bile, fainting and hallucination. A new bubble of madness was inflated last week when a high court ruled that Parliament must green-lighted Brexit. This spurred a number of critical stories in newspapers, saying in affect: "How dare three judges block Brexit". On seeing the articles, no angle from which they might be criticised registered with me, but The Guardian and the regressives have begun howling like they have never howled before. They are saying this is the end of democracy, the rule of law is about to be overturned and we are about to descend into fascism with Rupert Murdoch setting the drum-beat as the torries dance us malevolently into the end times. I had observed, in the above-mentioned time period, that The Guardian had become more trigger-happy with censorship. My account was put on pre-moderation (general policy is to allow comments, which are moderated after a few minutes) for posting a comment citing (with source) that there is a greater correlation between single-motherhood and crime than poverty and crime. Today my account was banned and they deleted about 1/3 of the comments on a volatile post by one of their favourite sons, Trotskyite - Paul Mason. And the comments were not abusive, they mainly consisted of criticism like: "I used to think Paul was a bit weird when he was on the Beeb - but I now realise he's totally lost it. How much do you get paid to write this stuff?" "Paul Mason couldn't breathe his way out of an iron lung, never mind string together such a disparate group of people." But also moderate criticism of his points. Comments were prematurely shut down after two hours. They used to let this stuff go through, but it seems that has come to an end. The comments are officially a safe-space. Does anyone else have insights into increase in censorship on regressive sites? I heard that a number of them had recently removed comments sections, but I don't know which sites were being referred to. Full backspace:

Dear Freedomain Radio Community, I have been a long-time listener of the show. And after consuming so much from Stefan and the team I felt that I wanted to do something to contribute to the goal of spreading the value of freedom and philosophy. I am an iOS and bitcoin developer and I just released the Mainstream Media Blocking app to the app store. It acts as an ad blocker but turns itself on MSNBC and Fox news, stopping any mainstream media outlet from loading in your Safari browser. This is the only mainstream media app out in the store it's free and you check it out here. If you enjoy it I would hugely appreciate a review. If anyone has other freedom spreading app ideas please let me know! I'm happy to implement a good idea and collaborate with the community here at Freedomain radio. Cheers!